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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22
Very Uniortunste.

Arkansaw Traveller: Man Ito friend)
Come, let us walk down this way
again.
Friend-Why?
Don't you see that fellow over yon-
der?"
Yes, what Of it?"
"Wcll. | want to meet him as often
as possible"
II don't understand you
..Ill explain. You know that l am
the worst man in the country for owing
people"
Eyes"
"And that when l owe a man dodge
him"
81 believe that | have noticed that"
"Well, now I've got revenge"
GLOW SOP"
why, you see that fellow over there
owes me. When | see him dodge me
il nearly tickles me TO death. / have
been so hampered by men / owe that |
now enjoy being owed. See how he
gets around the corner? Let's walk
I've that way. Say, hold on; let's 60
back"
whats the matter?"
s'See that fellow?"
Yes; what Of it?'
"Nothing, only ! him. Con-
found 1t, "A man never begins 10 enjoy
fimself but thai some unfortunate
thing arises"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

I'll probably give a complimentary vote to
General Bragg or Pustmaster-Geucra Villas
~PlTr>pURG, Pa, Jan. l1.-At 1881 tht
morning o i-n department was summoned u
a small b'oze III a brick tnemtut quench
hou-e. While The iirrlnen were hAfu at work
IN The cellar u terrific explosion ol natural gas
occurred wAich shook tie bindings IA the en-
tire sXuare and seriously injured 4 number Of
fr,men. Chief Evans Vss terribly burned,
L~oNpoS, Jan PA largely attended ns-
tional conference in favor of home rale for
Scotland opeued at Edinburgh to-day. Nearly
every section of scotland is represented and
there are a number Of friendly delegates from
England, VALE. and Ireland. The resolutions
viii declare in favor OF national legislatures
for the nationslities forming the United
Kingdom and specifically demand a Legislature
for scotland with power over local bills and
an executive responsible to the crown.
LONDON, Jan I2-Whilc holding confer
ence with Lord Salisbury to-day Lord Iddes-
Leigh, who recently resigned the ministry OF
lOltlGh al %iie, NAA bdAtU tfT4OuFIN III, allh
died soon after. He was sixty-four years old,
and for years had been the leader of the Con
scrvstive party In the house Of commons,
having served thirty years. He WAS better
known as Sir Stafford Northcote.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE Chicago Drug and
Chemical company confessed judgments this
morning 10 notes aggregAting $3.50 one
confession IS for $4,000 to George Ertart the
NV York lr,wer, and another % the Chicago
National bank for $3.50. Executions have
been served ON the company.
MILWAUKEE, VIE, Jan. l3.-There will he
a spccinl meeting tonight of Meuonincc as
sembly Heights Of Labor which ia composed
exclusively Of packers aud butchers, for the
purpose II considering what steps II any shall
toe taken regarding the reduction of wages
made a few days ags at John PiaDkiuton's
packing house. The cut ranges from five to
forty per cent. willie a large portion Of the
force has been temporarily laid off. The firm
claims that It cannot obtain d sufficient mum
Der of hogs to keep the entire works going,
the available supply having fallen from 5000
TO 400 daily.
LIMA -, Jan io-ihls morning. Nhle IN
side OF a i&rSe sun at thc STANDARD F'hner!'
putting IN a uanhead' a bucket OF Denzlnt
uiset ana iSnieu, ee'tihg nre To hpoeft haI-
sey ana iiHSuy nan, burning them lflght-
iuIiy' h.i''y, "iih ms CLONES on hre, craW!cd
RON 'he ulSuh0le ana leII 10 Inc ground a
distance oil fourteen ieet' breaking his back.
Ills oooy was h'eraiiy roasted haHS lhJu'
fieS are Also Ia'al'
Thin, O., Jan. 13-Mrs. Joseph Postlewaitc,
who lost her husband and two sons in the
Baltimore and Onto wreck here, is to begin
suit against the company for $25,0 600 dam
80
CARSON, new jan To- Inc legislature ID
jpint session Yesterday elected William NJ.
stewart United States senator 10y vote OF 80
out OF o.
R;cHNoNn Va Ian IA Thomas & Gin.
veyiu. condemned IA death for The murder 81
Fanny Lillian Madison was executed At i.10
D.. N. to-day. He died protesting his limo.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

CEDAR FALLS. la, Jan. l5-About noon
yesterday William q. Crosby, a wealthy young
married MAI of this place, shot his wife, kill
ing her instantly, a. then shot himself
twice, dying In a few minutes. The oily Wit
ness to the tragedy WAS the servant girl
Crosby came from down town, entered the
room where his wife sat Ia a rocking chair,
walked up behind her aud fired a IS -calibre
revolver at her head. Sine died without NOV
ing from the chair. He fired two shots at
himself and iell on the floor unconscious, dy-
ing In half an hour. He was about twenty
five years OF age, the son Of wealthy parents,
and had been married but two years. Domes-
tic infelicity is supposed to be the cause Of the
terrible tragedy. Mr.. Crosby's mother lives
here, aand is supposed to be worth half a
million. The town Is excited over this trag.
edy in high life.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22
And Yet He Went 10 Iail.

Philadelphia Call; judge shall
send You UP for three months.
Prisoner-What's hat for, judges
Judge (sternly-You're a tramp
and are without visible means of sup
port.
Prisoner earnestly admit it,
Judge, but faint my fault. I've axed
three girls to have me in the last month,
and if you'll give me a show III get
married before winter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22
AS matters now stand the Salisbury

AS matters now stand the Salisbury
cabinet faces an exceedingly brilliant
prospect of defeat soon after the reas-
sembling of parliament. 1t may get
along for some time without meeting
with disaster, but sooner or later it
seems destined to encounter the rocks
which are invariably found in the course
of coalition ministries.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22
The Restraining Order Denied.

DEs MONIES, Ia Jan. 15.-Judge Brewster
Of the United States circuit court, flied here
yesterday his decision I'm the very important
case Of the Pullman Sleeping Car company
against the State of Iowa. Since 1873 iae
state has assessed railroads crossing the state
for the sleeping and drawingroom ears they
Lave used, and they have in turn collected the
tax from the sleeping car companies. Last
year the Pullman company refused 10 pay the
tax and sought to prevent the state from col
Letting it from the railroads, An application
was argued at st. Paul before Judge Brewer
several weeks ago for al order restraining
county or state officials from collecting this
tax, on the ground that as the Pullman com.
pany was domicllcd IN Illinois, any attempt
to tax its property which was engaged in in
t~er-state would be uncoustitu-
tional. Judge Brewer replied yesterday refus.
ing the application for . restraining order,
and sustaining the position Of the state.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

Among the general officers of the
Union army who came from civil life,
John A. Logan was IL of the best
Perhaps he was the very best of all.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

Queen Victoria will give away 1000
titles and decorations in connection
with the celebration Of her jubilee.
This lavish generosity will not cost her
majesty a cant. but wall be expensive
to the recipients OF her favors.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

There is a "whisIliDg well" on a farm In
Michigan. 1t whistles loudest just before a
storm
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

The coast OF Norwsy is sinzng gradually
and that OF Sweden is slowly emerging from
the sea.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
STUDIO GOSSIP.

The Apollo Belvidere, the masterpiece of
sculpture was found in a temple at Antium,
md for over 800 years has stood in the Belvi-
derc of the Vatican. The Apollo Musagetes
was found at riyoli, in IVA
aSpagnolctto was Spanish by birth, but
made his way ON foot to Rome, where for
many months he was employed as a street
porter but at the same time followed the
study of art in his humble way
A copy Of the picture of Farragut dashed
to the rigging in the naval fight at Mobile
bay, which was painted for the car, is still
in the possession Of Mrs. John Watson of
New York, the daughter of the artist, Mr.
Page,
The presumptuousness of Rubens is shown
by the fact that the combined portraits Of his
first and second wife, his daughter, with his
father, grandfather and himself, are intended
to represent holy family, and the painting
is typical of that idea.
1t is a curious coincidence that all the jew
ish ar. Its OF any importancein England have
had Solomon as part of their name. There
have been Solomon Hart the Royal Acade-
mician; Abraham Solomon, Simeon Solo
mon, etc, and in the present day Mr. Solo
mon j. Solomon.
Marble busts of the vice presidents have
been ordered for the Capitol at Washington
at $500 apiece The intention is that the
work in each instance shall be done by a
sculptor living in the state which the vice
president represented in the senate. Mr.
John Q. a. Ward will model the bust Of Mr..
William \. Wheeler.
Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, has given an
order to Story, the sculptor, for copy OF his
London statue of George Peabody, to be
placed in front of the Garrett mansion on
Mount Vernon place, The statue is to be of
marble, fifteen feet high from the base of the
pedestal TO the crown of the head. The statue
in London was copied from painting, and
represents the eminent philanthropist stand
ing erect, dressed in the old fashioned creased
and folded frock coat Story is now at work
on the statue in Rome. 1t will be completed
about September
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
Identified Him.

A Bismarck woman was inquiring about
the wreck. She had expected her husband on
the train that was thrown from the bridge.
The conductor did not know Of a man of her
name on the train but said a man who was
talking about the "Missouri slope" just before
the accident occurred was killed.
Chow did he talk, enthusiastically or in
different"
usiastically-very."
ooh, indeed. What were his last wordsN
"Well, as I remember, the car was lying
on top of him, and he was in an argument
with another passenger, who was also about
squeezed out The last words he said were:
Il tell you, my friend, if you say that Bis
marck won't have another railroad-this-
ar-you-are-a-liar' Then turning his
eyes on the man who escaped, he said: II
YOU want that lot you'd better close the deal
quick. There will be three more roads in
Bismarck this year; electric lights have beer
secured, water works will be-but he dice
before the sentence was finished"
"Ah, yes, twas he," the woman murmuret
in heart broken tone; 'but did he make the
sale? and do you really think we will have
another railroad this yearp--Bismarck Tri
bune.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
4 STRAIGHT Bride.

"Boy, are you acquainted around here9" he
asked OF lad on Michigan avenue.
ayes, sir"
II want to find the Civilized Cornice
works"
"Never heard of 'em."
"But it's an old concern. and I was told to
come to this corner There's big sign on the
roof"
ooh, you mean Galvanized Cornice works
It's right around that corner"
Club, did say civilized''
ayes. sir
"And the proper word is galvanized
"That's it,"
"Here-come here. Here's dime for you,
and you just keep mum about what has
passed I'm going to run for supervisor this
fall on the strength of being a self-made man,
who got his education by the light of corn
cob candle, and don't want the Internal op-
position to get hold of the fact that the can
die went out on me too soon."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

It is said that Carlyle read on an average a
dozen books day.
Mrs. Henry Wood is said to have left five
DR. six posthumous novels.
Rider Haggard is only 81 years old and is
practicing barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Susan Coolidge has parrot, and it is said
the bird can recite whole passages from the
novels of its owner.
Oscar Wilde, ex-apostle of @stheticism. just
appears as a novelist in serial story, LID
Arthur Services Crime" 1t is a story oil
chiromancy, and lurid one.
The highest price ever paid for book III
Germany is said TO be $3.50, given for copy
of the ORIGINAL Latin edition Of the Letters OIL
Columbus, printed in ll93.
The literary education of women began TO
prevail in England in the early part ol Ine
Seventeenth century In lo!o heither Vi
Shakespearc's daughters could write
Mr. Walter Besant's acquaintance with
Mr. James Rice began with the chance con-
trihution of an article by the former to once
Week. the periodical of which Mr.. Rice
was owner and editor.
"Renaert de Vos," or "Reynard the Fox"
n satirical poem, written abort 1850 by
William Van Utenhoven, priest of Acrden-
burg, was for centuries the most popular
work ever written. 1t was translated into
many languages.
Kate Vannah, whose verses are very well
known, is of Irish and German extraction,
and is 80 years old. She was educated at ST.
Joseph's academy, at Emmttsburg, Md,
graduating in 1874 She is a Roman Catho-
lie, a fine musician, respectable artist ana
an admirable horsewoman.
The Byrnes- Hawthorne combination should
produce some very exciting and sensational
fiction Thomas Byrnes, chief of the de-
tective bureau of New York, is to supply the
plots, which Julian Hawthorne will work up
into series of fascinating novels, of which
"A Tragic Mystery" will be the first.
DIR. Holmes, in speaking of the fact that he
was born in the same year $500 that wit
messed the birth of Tennyson, Gladstone, Lord
Houghton (which the doctor suggests pro-
notes humility rather than vanity, makes
this comment: "Persons of the same year
watch each other, especially as the sands OF
life begin TO run low, as we can imagine so
many damaged hour glasses to keep an eye ON
each other"
Not many know that the jolly, light
hearted "Madge Eliot" of Harper's Magazine
and Young People, is the wife. Of the artist
Sol Eytinge, whose spirited "darky" pictures
in Harper's publications have so often amused
the public. Mrs. Eytinge has heart full of
love for children as well as sympathy for all
the poor, the outcast and the oppressed.
"Madge Eliot" has been truly called "the
sweet singer for the soiTowful."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
TeIepranhY In Dakota.

A man from the East was visiting friend
in Dakota town. One day he came into his
friends office and said:
81 got telegram about a half hour ago
and have been studying on it ever since, but
can't make anything out of it. I'm afraid
some of my family are sick"
as it the first one they brought to you?"
asked his friend.
ayes"
ooh, well, it isn't intended for you then
they never strike it right the first time. Let
me see it,"
He took it and read as follows:
MPsUs, June Sd. q. Grom: Del clsd by
10 hurrd bro quuuaurst como tunnorrwb.
CoDDow g. G.
"That's it," continued his friend, "this is in
tended for Graham the lawyer. 1t means
for him to go ahead and buy some land for
81 200, and that the man who wants it will be
here tomorrow. That's easy to read COM
pared with most of them. Let's goover and
give it to Graham and then hunt up your
message-it has probably been delivered
around town somewhere. dakota Bell.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
WANTED NO "MEJuMr IN HIS.
The SAGE Conclusion 81 Minnesota
Parent Who Objected.

The SAGE Conclusion 81 minnesota
Parent who objected.
81 don't want 10 spirit0olism in mine, said
n rnl headed man with long hair, as he sa;
down in q saloon on Washington avenue.
,.Thcrc may be something in it, but know
nil about it that | want to know, and he
Ioored back in his chew and looked solemnly
o. companion.
Not, the Il: ter N.-l itE asked the other.
Gimme Il little rye said the red nosed
man; "thems the only sperrits / want any
thing to do with he continued, as the glass
was set before him. They're good enough
for me-"
!Wot's the matter with spiritualism;" re-
peated the companion.
II amt a sayin' nothin' 'gainst spiritool-
ISM" he announced, guardedly, "but l don't
want any of it; have had little experience,
and that settled me- My wife Mandy went
to some of their meetms and they kinder
affected her. One of their hungry lookin'
cusses come round to the house one day, and
told Mandy she'd make a mejum like him if
she'd take some lessons for S25. He gave
test, and called on 'Mandy's dead brother to
show up He come and they had talk. He
told MANDY that when she was mejum she
That's what settled me. | didn't wait for
nothin' more. l didn't argy with Mandy,
cause / knew it was no use. | watched my
chance and got that cusS out in the medder
and told him to git, He said he wouldn't.
just took and pounded him till he was black
an blue He didn't wait another mint, but
set cut FOR the station like 4-yeal-old runnin'
away"
"Kinder pulverized him, did you!" re-
marked the listener.
"You bet, an did him up in brown with
red dressin'."
But wot made you kick on spiritualismw
asked the companion for the third time.
II amt sayin' anything against spiritool-
ISM" reiterated the red nose man, "but 1
don't want Mandy to be no mejum. Now
don't want to run down Mandy. She's the
best housekeeper in our county There amt
no dirt round our house, and her butter an
bread is famous But Mandy has her pc
cooliarites, and they're kinder unpleasant at
times. l amt no fault finder, but still l can't
make up my mind that l want them pecooli-
arities round me all the time Now Mandy
strong and the chances are she'll live longer'n
will. Now, if she was melt n she could
call my sperrit to her every time. wouldn't
have no peace in the other world at all. She'd
keep me right by her an wouldn't have a
chance to 60 visitin' in the next world" and
he sighed gently
Just then a harsh sound was waited into
| the saloon. 1t evidently emanated from q
female, and it sounded like a man filing a
saw. The red nosed man rose with a wild
look in his eye He glanced at the back door
| and then looked toward the street. 1t was
only big colored woman disputing with the
small boy. A mighty sigh or spasm of relief
shook his frame.
I'll thought it was Mandy" he said. u
| left her at the hotel minneapolis Tribune.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
ALL SORTS.

The "chambermaid" in Mexican hotels is
generally man.
Goldfish costs more in Boston than in any
other city of the Union.
A legless negro at Crawford, Ca, is a
preacher, and two goats hitched to cart
haul him from pulpit to pulpit.
BY order of the San Francisco supervisors
the historic sand lot is to be planted i'll
peaceful clover. Kcarney now keeps an in
telirence Office COR cooks and washerwomen.
Syracuse is said to have the biggest dog in
the world He weighs 2O3 pounds and meas
ures six feet and three inches from nose to
tail lie is nearly two years old and was
born in England.
A white baby was born in South Sioux
| City, Neb., the other day, and it being the
first occurrence of the sort there the citizens
celebrated by serenadmg the newcomer and
presenting it with u corner lot.
Florida can boast the only county in the
United States composed entirely of islands.
Monroe county, since the formation of Lee
from some Of its territory, now comprises the
keys and islands Off the mainland.
The wires of the Western Union company,
il stretched in one continuous line, would go
round the globe nearly eighteen times, and
would reach from the earth to the moon and
almost back again. The company controls
over 10000 miles Of wire.
According to Herodotus, Babylon was a
square fifteen miles on each side, with 100
brass gates. 1t was composed of twenty-five
streets each way, Is miles long and $50 feet
broad, crossing each other at right angles,
besides four half streets, 200 feet wide, facing
the walls.
There are in Chicago, at the present time
between 5000 and 10000 Bohemians, who
have ali come to America within a few
years, thu great majority since 1870. Mos
of them know very little English; some non'
Mt all. They form distinct community
with their own organizations, journals ant
peculiar ways Of life
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
Don't Hawk, Spit, Cough,

Suffer dizziness, indigestion, intiamma
ton of the eyes, headache, lassitude, IN
ability to perform mental work and IN
disposition for bodily labor, and annoy
and disgust your friends and acguaint-
ances with your nasal twang and offensive
breath and constant efforts to clean your
nose and throat, when DR.. Sage's ia
tarrb Remedy" will promptly relieve you
of discomfort and suffering, and your
friends of the disgusting and needless IN
fjictions of your loathsome disease.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
An Annronr;ata Name.

"John, did you ever observe the fondness
of DR.. Blank and his wife for each other"
II hadn't noticed it specially What makes
you think soi"
"Why, Mrs. Blank always called the doctor
her duck"
"Ah, yes That's because he is quack."
Newman Independent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
mnuHRRl Morphine Habit Cured in 10
HRMVEW to 20 days. No pny ill cured.
VI uOUd DIR. j. Stephens, Lebanon, Ohio

DIR: Bragg, homeopathic Physician
and Surgeon. Compound oxygen. Office
and home treatment for the cure OF con
sumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma,
dyspepsia, blood and nervous diseases.
Hours: 10 a. IN. to II M, and to =. M
.0l9 Congress avenue, Austin, Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
4 Source of Sin.

"Don't you know" she said to Bobby, who
was impaling fly on the point of pin,
shat it is wicked to catch flies"
at is wicieder to miss EN-, as the Giants
TO-" responded Bobby, who is something Of
baseball expert-New York Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30
EXPERIENCE OF MRS. PETERS.

Mrs Peters had lie,
Mrs. Peters had chis,
Mrs. Peters was sure ehe was going TO die;
They dosed her with pills,
With powders and squills,
With remedies wet and with remedies dry.
Many medicines lured her,
But none of them cured her,
Their names and their number nobody could
tell; ,,,
Bnt some "Pellets' were tried,
That acted like magic and then she GOT Wen
tTbe maric "Pellers" were DR. Perce's Pleasant
Pnrgatiye Pellets (the original Little Liver Pills)
They cured Mrs Peters, and now she wouldn I oe
without them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30

Impurities of the blood often cause
great annoyance at this season; Hoods
Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and cures
all such affections.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-30

Deacon White has been made the III, D.
by the trustees Of Knox college, Gales
burg, Illinois.